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Charlotte on trying to conform:
‘I have endeavoured…to observe all the duties a woman ought to fulfil but to feel deeply interested in them I don’t always succeed, for sometimes I would rather be reading or writing…’
— Jul 17, 2025 03:43PM
‘I have endeavoured…to observe all the duties a woman ought to fulfil but to feel deeply interested in them I don’t always succeed, for sometimes I would rather be reading or writing…’
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Charlotte Bronte about her siblings:
‘One by one I have watched them fall asleep on my arm - and closed their glazed eyes - I have seen them buried one by one - and thus far - God has upheld me. From my heart I thank him.’
— Jul 23, 2025 04:04PM
‘One by one I have watched them fall asleep on my arm - and closed their glazed eyes - I have seen them buried one by one - and thus far - God has upheld me. From my heart I thank him.’
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Emily was ‘self-sufficient and silent, she had a need for solitude and the wild moors that was overwhelming.’
— Jul 21, 2025 01:58PM
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Charlotte was told ‘literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life’
— Jul 17, 2025 03:39PM
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Emily’s friend Ellen Nussey on watching her observe tadpoles:
‘nature’s simplest offerings were fountains of pleasure and enjoyment.’
— Jul 17, 2025 11:34AM
‘nature’s simplest offerings were fountains of pleasure and enjoyment.’
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“Charlotte drew an implicit contrast between her writing and that of Jane Austen on reading Emma in 1850:
‘Her business is not so much with the human heart as with the human eyes, mouth, hands and feet… the unseen seat of Life and the sentient target of death - this Miss Austen ignores…’ “
— Jul 16, 2025 10:48AM
‘Her business is not so much with the human heart as with the human eyes, mouth, hands and feet… the unseen seat of Life and the sentient target of death - this Miss Austen ignores…’ “
